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WisDems Press | News You Can Use 3.16.17

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In Trump Budget, More for Military, as His Supporters May Lose out
New York Times // Peter Baker
In his first spending blueprint since taking office, Mr. Trump made choices demonstrating that parts of America will be more first than others — and some of the budget losers, it turns out, may be some of the very constituencies that have been most supportive of the new president during his improbable rise to power.

2 Federal Judges Rule Against Trump’s Latest Travel Ban
New York Times // Alexander Burns
A federal judge in Hawaii issued a nationwide order Wednesday evening blocking President Trump’s ban on travel from parts of the Muslim world, dealing a stinging blow to the White House and signaling that Mr. Trump will have to account in court for his heated rhetoric about Islam.

U.S. CongressRyan: Health care plan must change to pass the House
Washington Post // Mike DeBonis
House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said Wednesday that his health-care proposal must change to pass the House, marking a significant retreat from his earlier position that the carefully crafted legislation would fail if substantially altered.

Ron Johnson cool to Paul Ryan-Donald Trump health care plan
Wisconsin State Journal // Mark Sommerhauser
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson gave a cool reception Wednesday to the U.S. House Republican health care proposal backed by President Donald Trump, saying it doesn’t do enough to reduce health insurance premiums and is being rushed through Congress.

For Paul Ryan, it’s now — or maybe never
CNN // Stephen Collinson
In the pandemonium of the health care fight, the House speaker’s reputation, authority and political fate are on the line in a way they never have been before during his charmed assent to the pinnacle of Washington power.

Pocan: Americans want a president who puts their needs first
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel // Mark Pocan
My colleague Rep. Sean Duffy asserted in a recent column that the president’s Joint Address to Congress gives Americans a reason to be optimistic. The truth is that many people are experiencing a reality far different from the empty rhetoric of the president’s speech.

Walker optimistic for “meaningful reforms” to Medicaid
Associated Press
“Gov. Scott Walker says he is optimistic that President Donald Trump’s administration will be able to make “meaningful reforms” to the Medicaid program, even as other Republican governors oppose a proposal that would drastically cut payments to the states.”

OpinionFranzen: Clouds gathering over government access
Ernst-Ulrich Franzen
“Casting a cloud over Sunshine Week, the annual nationwide celebration of access to public information, the nonprofit Knight Foundation has released a survey that doesn’t bode well for open government. The foundation surveyed about 300 journalists, advocates, record custodians, technology companies, scholars and others.”

Hey, Governor Walker: Be a cheerleader for start-ups
David D. Hayes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“Tommy Thompson told me not once but it seems like a thousand times that his worst day as governor was better than his best day in the cabinet,” Walker said Tuesday at the Rotary Club of Milwaukee.

We can’t put off state’s road repair bill any longer
Appleton Post-Crescent // Paul Freiberg
It is my opinion that the state must increase funding for our roads in the upcoming two-year state budget. The safety of our families relies on safe roads and highways in good condition. Bottom line, we need to allocate monies to resurface and reconstruct the roadways, some of which are at the end of their useful life.

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